Next Book Group meeting will be June 10th, 2025, at 4 pm in the library.
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Reading Selection for discussion
at the April Meeting: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fanny Flagg 
Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.
Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television Several doctors, all of them taken with—and almost taken in by-Dena There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie. |
Reading List:
June Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg *Audio Cassette July The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende *Audio CD August Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer *Libby, Audio CD * Titles with audio versions and where to find them. If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time. Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas |